What sets her apart
A two-deck spa of about 1,950 square metres with a thalassotherapy pool - far larger than the rest of the Carnival fleet's, because the ship was ordered to a Costa design and transferred before delivery.
Cabins on this ship
7 grades on this ship. What each costs depends on the sailing, so the prices are on the itineraries.
Interior
No window, around seventeen square metres, and the cheapest way onto the ship. Completely dark with the lights off. Carnival's interior cabins are no smaller than its balcony cabins - the balcony is added outside the room rather than taken out of it - so what you give up here is light, not floor area.
Porthole
A cabin on decks one and two with a real porthole in the hull. It costs less than an ocean-view cabin and still gives you daylight and some sense of the weather. The window is small, you are close to the waterline, and low forward cabins are where the ship's movement and its noise are both most obvious.
Ocean View
A sealed picture window. The cheapest grade with a proper horizon, and that horizon does more for seasickness than any amount of floor area. Note that the twin beds in some cabins in this grade will not convert to a queen once the upper berths are in use, which catches out four-person bookings.
Balcony
Private outdoor space at about the same interior floor area as an inside cabin - roughly seventeen square metres with the balcony outside it. The grade most people are glad of on the South Pacific sailings this ship runs. Balcony sizes vary a great deal within the one grade, so ask about the position.
Extended and Aft-View Balcony
Sold as Aft-View Extended Balcony and Premium Vista Balcony: the same cabin with an outdoor space roughly twice the standard, sometimes wrapping around the corner of the ship. Much the best outdoor space short of a suite. Aft cabins sit over the engines and propellers and carry noticeably more vibration.
Cloud 9 Spa Stateroom
Not a rung on the ladder so much as a location: spa cabins exist as interior, ocean view, balcony and suite, all of them on decks ten and eleven with direct private access to the spa, and treatment and thermal-suite privileges included. Worth it only if you will actually use the spa; otherwise you are paying for a door.
Suite
Junior, Ocean, Grand and Captain's suites: a separate sitting area, a bath, a walk-in wardrobe and a substantially larger balcony, with priority boarding. There are only about fifty on a ship carrying three thousand, so they go early. Suites are charged the higher daily gratuity rate.
Sailings on Carnival Splendor
3 sailings in the catalogue right now.
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